The Open Mic, Unplugged: Challenges To Viewpoint-Based Constraints On Public-Comment Periods,
2018
University of Florida Levin College of Law
The Open Mic, Unplugged: Challenges To Viewpoint-Based Constraints On Public-Comment Periods, Frank D. Lomonte, Clay Calvert
UF Law Faculty Publications
Perhaps the purest form of citizen political expression is addressing a government body directly during the public-comment period. Despite its salutary civic benefits, the public-comment period faces escalating threats, with local elected officials imposing rigid controls on speakers. Disturbingly, these rules sometimes are enforced via arrest. The U.S. Supreme Court recently confronted this scenario in Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, involving the arrest of a citizen-critic who refused to stop using his city council's open-mic period to decry public corruption. While narrowly fact-specific, the Court's June 2018 resolution of the case reaffirms the importance of protecting speakers at …
Thinking About The South Dakota Constitution,
2018
University of South Dakota
Thinking About The South Dakota Constitution, Jonathan Van Patten
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Rapid Dna Testing And Virginia's Rape Kit Backlog: A Double-Edged Sword Masquerading As A Miracle, Or The Future Of Forensic Analysis?,
2018
University of Richmond - School of Law
Rapid Dna Testing And Virginia's Rape Kit Backlog: A Double-Edged Sword Masquerading As A Miracle, Or The Future Of Forensic Analysis?, Emma C. Greger
Law Student Publications
While Rapid DNA technology has the potential to revolutionize every aspect of the criminal justice system, from arrest to the postconviction appeals process, there has been particular excitement centered around its potential to reduce the rape kit backlog.
Understanding The Complicated Landscape Of Civil War Monuments,
2018
University at Buffalo Law School (SUNY)
Understanding The Complicated Landscape Of Civil War Monuments, Jessica Owley, Jess Phelps
Indiana Law Journal
This essay examines the controversy regarding confederate monuments and attempts to contextualize this debate within the current preservation framework. While much attention has been paid to this topic over the past year, particularly with regard to “public” monuments, such discussion has generally failed to recognize the varied and complicated property law layers involved—which can fundamentally change the legal requirements for modification or removal. We propose a spectrum or framework for assessing these resources ranging from public to private, and we explore the messy space in-between these poles where most monuments actually fall. By highlighting these categories, we provide an initial …
Commercial Transactions,
2018
Texas Tech University
Criminal Procedure: Confessions, Searches, And Seizures,
2018
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Criminal Procedure: Confessions, Searches, And Seizures, Honorable Michael E. Keasler, Benjamin S. Brown
SMU Annual Texas Survey
No abstract provided.
Civil Procedure: Pre-Trial & Trial,
2018
Figari + Davenport, LLP
Civil Procedure: Pre-Trial & Trial, Amanda Sotak, Andrew C. Whitaker, Timothy Daniels, Amber D. Reece
SMU Annual Texas Survey
No abstract provided.
Bankruptcy,
2018
Northern District of Texas
Bankruptcy, Honorable Harlin D. Hale, Chance Hiner
SMU Annual Texas Survey
No abstract provided.
Family Law,
2018
Teller Law Firm, P.C.
Family Law, Anna K. Teller, Donald E. Teller Jr.
SMU Annual Texas Survey
No abstract provided.
Insurance Law,
2018
Wilson Elser, LLP
Insurance Law, J. Price Collins, John C. Scott, Blake H. Crawford
SMU Annual Texas Survey
No abstract provided.
Franchise Law,
2018
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Franchise Law, Deborah S. Coldwell, Iris Gibson, Virginia Burke Debeer, Sally Dahlstrom
SMU Annual Texas Survey
No abstract provided.
Professional Liability,
2018
Carrington Coleman
Professional Liability, Evan A. Kirkham, Derrick R. Ward, Lance G. Henderson
SMU Annual Texas Survey
No abstract provided.
Partnership Law,
2018
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Partnership Law, Jeff Dorrill, Matthew Schindel, Troy Christensen, Kate Ortbahn, Josiah Bethards
SMU Annual Texas Survey
No abstract provided.
Real Property,
2018
Winstead PC
Real Property, J. Richard White, G. Roland Love, Amanda Grainger
SMU Annual Texas Survey
No abstract provided.
A Guide To Understanding And Addressing Vacant Property In The City Of St. Louis,
2018
Saint Louis University School of Law
A Guide To Understanding And Addressing Vacant Property In The City Of St. Louis, Dana M. Malkus
Faculty White Papers
The City of St. Louis has a serious vacant property challenge. Since the population peak in 1950, the City has experienced a 63% decline in population and now has one of the highest rates of vacancy in the nation. The City has approximately 25,000 vacant properties. Approximately 12,000 of these are owned by the Land Reutilization Authority (LRA) or other public agencies, which means that approximately 13,000 are privately owned. Most of those vacant properties are concentrated in the north and southeast portions of the City. For a city of its size, the City has "an extremely large" number of …
The Keys To The Kingdom: Judges, Pre-Hearing Procedure, And Access To Justice,
2018
Columbia Law School
The Keys To The Kingdom: Judges, Pre-Hearing Procedure, And Access To Justice, Colleen F. Shanahan
Faculty Scholarship
Judges see themselves as – and many reforming voices urge them to be – facilitators of access to justice for pro se parties in our state civil and administrative courts. Judges’ roles in pro se access to justice are inextricably linked with procedures and substantive law, yet our understanding of this relationship is limited. Do we change the rules, judicial behavior, or both to help self-represented parties? We have begun to examine this nuanced question in the courtroom, but we have not examined it in a potentially more promising context: pre-hearing motions made outside the courtroom. Outside the courtroom, judges …
Bridging The Safe Drinking Water Gap For California’S Rural Poor,
2018
Columbia Law School
Bridging The Safe Drinking Water Gap For California’S Rural Poor, Camille Pannu
Faculty Scholarship
Spurred by decades of inaction and continued exposure to unsafe drinking water, community leaders from California’s disadvantaged communities (DACs) advocated for the creation of a human right to water under state law. Shortly thereafter, the California Legislature put forward a bond to finance much needed water infrastructure improvements and drought relief interventions across the state. Voters approved the $7.45 billion bond, which reserved millions of dollars of funding for DACs with persistent water quality problems. In setting aside those funds, the Legislature acknowledged that decades of disinvestment in rural, disadvantaged communities had created severe water contamination, limited water access, and …
State Public-Law Litigation In An Age Of Polarization,
2018
Duke Law School
State Public-Law Litigation In An Age Of Polarization, Margaret H. Lemos, Ernest A. Young
Faculty Scholarship
Public-law litigation by state governments plays an increasingly prominent role in American governance. Although public lawsuits by state governments designed to challenge the validity or shape the content of national policy are not new, such suits have increased in number and salience over the last few decades — especially since the tobacco litigation of the late 1990s. Under the Obama and Trump Administrations, such suits have taken on a particularly partisan cast; “red” states have challenged the Affordable Care Act and President Obama’s immigration orders, for example, and “blue” states have challenged President Trump’s travel bans and attempts to roll …
Changing Hearts, Minds, And Structures: Advancing Equity And Health Equity In State Government Policies, Operations, And Practices In Minnesota And Other States,
2018
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Changing Hearts, Minds, And Structures: Advancing Equity And Health Equity In State Government Policies, Operations, And Practices In Minnesota And Other States, Susan R. Weisman, Ayah Helmy, Vayong Moua, Julie Ralston Aoki
Mitchell Hamline Law Review
No abstract provided.
Front Matter,
2018
Southern Methodist University
